Improvement in lamp-holders



l. D. FLEECE.

Lamp-Holder; No, 160,465 Patented March 2,1875.

ITNESSES: INVENTO'HZ W I W THE GRAPHIC C0.PHOT0.-LITH.39 Eu PARKPLACLNY.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES D. PIERCE, OF MILWAUKEE, WISOON SIN, ASSIGNOR OF TWO-THIRDS HISRIGHT TO JOHN B. SMITH AND FRANKLIN R. PIERCE, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN LAMP-HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 160,465, dated March 2,1875; application filed January 22, 1875.

To all whom it may concern: lowered by pressing in the wire, and thenotches Be it known that I, JAMES D. PIERCE, of D will hold it in place.This is for the pur- Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee, in the poseof accommodating it to the different State of Wisconsin, have inventedcertain Imlengths of chimneys. E, a wooden handle on provementsinLamp-Holde'rs,of which the folthe top of the wire to carry it by; F, thelowing is 'a specification: lamp; G, the chimney.

The object of my invention is to hold a I claim as my inventionlamp, andcarry it about the house and out of 1. The combination of bottom A, wireB, doors, instead of a lantern; and it consists in forming a-handle atthe top, and shade U, ar a bottom piece for the lamp to stand on and aranged substantially as set forth. wire running up outside, with ahandle at the 2. The combination of bottom A, side wire top to carry itby, and a shade on its top. B, shade O, handle E, and notch D, substan-Figure l is a sectional view of my invention. tially as specified. Amthe bottom, made ot metal, for the lamp I JAMES PIERCE to stand on B,the wire frame, by which it is hung; O, the shade over the top of thechim- Witnesses:

ney, held in place by the notches D on the out- J. 'B. SMITH,

side of the wire. The shade may be raised or DETTEF GRELKE.

